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TuneCab is media converter for DRM-protected or unprotected files for playing on PCs, mobile phones, MP3 players, MP4 players and iPods, PDAs, PSPs and other devices. It converts music, films, video clips, audio books to commonly used formats such as MP3, AAC, WAV audio, MPEG4, DivX movie, has YouTube Ripper plugin and CD Ripper.
TuneCab Ultra Video version 3.1.8 represents extremely high conversion speed with up to 50x in batch mode without loseless quality of converted files. The number of input formats has risen to 50 formats.
It lets you choose the compression level and it preserves ID3 tags for artist, album, title names etc.
A batch mode and the drag&drop function for folders and files allow to convert and unprotect large files collections with just 1-click.
The only condition is that content must be legally obtained and can be played on the computer where TuneCab is installed.
System Requirements:
Vista x32, Windows XP x32 or Windows 2003 x32
256 Megabyte RAM
Microsoft’s MediaPlayer 9 or higher installed
The latest version of Microsoft® Visual Studio® includes a lot of new treats for mobile developers. In addition to new debugging tools and emulators, it includes the Windows® Mobile 5 SDK, .NET® Compact Framework 3.5, and SQL® Server Compact Edition 3.5 out of the box, without additional installs. This walkthrough gives you the code and assets for a fully functional Hangman-style game called “W80 Words” (weighty words), which takes advantage of the new platform and coding environment.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 includes a lot of useful features for mobile developers, especially those of the database persuasion. On the one hand, you have the latest and greatest version 3 emulators, Windows Mobile 5 libraries and project templates pre-installed, and unit testing for mobile. (See the Windows Mobile Team Blog for an overview.) On the other hand, you have LINQ, a new syntax for working directly with datasets. But what is the sound of two hands clapping without touching? That’s right—silence.
Here’s the scoop on LINQ for mobile: technically, LINQ works with .NET Compact Framework 3.5, though with limitations. According to MSDN you get standard query operators, LINQ to DataSet, and LINQ to XML. However, the more useful LINQ to SQL designer is not supported in SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 (see this thread). Nor will you find any LINQ objects available in your mobile project, despite having a System.Linq reference added by default. In fact, I can find neither details nor code samples regarding LINQ for Mobile on the Internet. Nor can I get any additional information from the fine folks at Microsoft.
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The Source Outliner PowerToy is a Visual Studio 2008 extension that provides a tree view of your source code’s types and members and lets you quickly navigate to them with filtering inside the editor.
The Source Code Outliner PowerToy was created as a package using the Visual Studio SDK for Visual Studio 2008. For more information about VSX, visit the Visual Studio Extensibility Developer Center. The project source code (in both C# and Visual Basic) can be found on the SourceCodeOutliner project on CodePlex.com.
Neodynamic is proud to announce the availability of Barcode Professional for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the only product providing linear, postal and 2D barcoding support for WPF platform!
Neodynamic Barcode Professional for WPF is a royalty-free lightweight .NET component which generates high quality vector-based barcodes for WPF Applications. Barcode Professional for WPF was designed and written from ground up to take advantage of new presentation layer featured by .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5.
Mindscape has released the first 100% WPF Property Grid that supports the .Net framework 3.0 and 3.5. For the first time, developers can use a property grid within their WPF applications without the need to use winforms interop, enabling the power and flexibility that WPF provides right out of the box.
Microsoft made good on its promise to offer .Net Framework 3.5 source code this week, three months after Scott Guthrie, a general manager within the Microsoft Developer division, posted Microsoft’s intent on his blog. The source code to classes such as System, IO, Windows.Forms, and others is now viewable from within Visual Studio. When the announcement was first made, however, some developers viewed it as a Pandora’s Box because the source code would be released under a “Reference” license, which meant developers could view the code but not use or modify it. On Wednesday Guthrie revealed a small change in the licensing which addresses those concerns:
“We made a small change to the license to specifically call out that the license does not apply to users developing software for a non-Windows platform that has ‘the same or substantially the same features or functionality’ as the .NET Framework,” he wrote. “If the software you are developing is for Windows platforms, you can look at the code, even if that software has ‘the same or substantially the same features or functionality’ as the .NET Framework.”
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The Rename Project tool enables Project Server 2003 administrators to rename a project, or multiple projects, that are stored in the same SQL Server database. This tool combines a PDS extension with an application.
The Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 SDK Documentation provides documentation for building custom Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) applications that run on Live Communications Server 2003.
The Live Communications Server 2003 SDK Documentation is designed to assist developers who are building custom SIP applications for Live Communications Server 2003, and also to assist administrators who want to manage Live Communications Servers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) applications.